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Women's soccer to host annual color run
The Plattsburgh State women's soccer team and Autism Speaks U are pairing up for their 3rd annual color run, which is happening Saturday, April 22.
Autism Speaks U is a program that was launched in 2008 that is designed to help college students in their awareness, advocacy and fundraising efforts for Autism Speaks. In its existence, the organization has raised over $7 million through student-organized events.
"We've done a lot for this year," Ashley Smith said, who is the treasurer for Autism Speaks U on campus. "So far, we've had increasing numbers since our first color run two years ago, so we're hoping for the same thing again this year."
The campus-wide event is open to the entire public since the color run/walk is geared to raise money as well as awareness for Autism Speaks.
"Our job is to create awareness and fundraise money to help families with autism," Smith said. "Not only that, but we also want to create a more diverse and accepting community that understands more about what autism actually is."
Teaming up with the women's soccer team is significant because not only does it bring the student-athlete body into a fundraising organization, but by mixing with other clubs and organizations on campus shows how the student-body of PSUC can come together for a great cause.
"This a huge event for all of us," Smith said. "A lot of things on campus we don't get the opportunity to bring sports and clubs together, so this is a great event that brings all groups together, as well as community members too."
The women's soccer team and Autism Speaks U have been planning this event since before the start of the year, which makes for this to be a well-organized event.
"Everybody has been so excited," women's soccer head coach Tania Armellino said. "For our group, it's been fantastic being able to work along with such an involved group on campus."
The first organized color run/walk drew only about 150 people; however, last year, the event saw more than 500 participants. This year, one can only expect that number to jump even more.
The women's soccer team enjoys being a part of such a great cause and is looking forward to another great outcome.
"This is outside of soccer," Armellino said. "As a coach, and seeing your own players put on an event outside of the game, an event like this, it's really an amazing thing to be a part of."
Armellino has prior experience helping organize fundraising events like this, but she gives a lot of credit to the students and her team for the commitment they have shown to being a community leader.
"Even though it is all off-the-field, we are still working together as a team," Armellino said. "They have truly enjoyed it, and with last year being so successful, we have a good time."
With the weather being as nice as it has been, it is a perfect time for an event like this. Not only is it an outdoor event, but the route of the run/walk will be along the Saranac River.
"It's all about everybody enjoying themselves," Armellino said. "It's a great course along the river, so that is another thing that we are excited about."
For the players that have helped organize and put the event to fruition, it has been an enjoyable process. Not only is it a fun activity, but it is also for a great cause, which the players have emphasized.
"Each year the turnout has gotten better and better," junior midfielder Lisa Bueche said. "It's for a great cause and is something that is really important. What's most exciting is seeing the final product since we spend a lot of time organizing, so it's nice to see it all come together."
Despite it being called a run, the organizers encourage everyone to participate, regardless of your athletic ability, which has resulted in a lot of people walking it, which is just as good.
"There is no competitiveness, it's all for the good of the cause," Bueche said. "It's all to show how the community can come together for a good cause."
Tickets are still being sold at the Alumni College Center information desk, as well as online. The tickets are $5 for students, $10 for faculty and $15 for the general public. Registration begins at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 22, with the run starting at 11 a.m.
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In 1989, NATO issued a specification for two personal-defense weapons — one a pistol and the other a shoulder-fired compact submachine gun. The pistol was to weigh less than one kilogram while the shoulder-fired weapon would weigh less than three kilograms.
Both weapons would fire a cartridge with improved range, accuracy and terminal ballistic performance compared to guns firing the nine-by-19-millimeter round.
NATO planned to equip rear-echelon troops — personnel who couldn't carry or didn't need a standard-issue rifle — with these new weapons. NATO believed that, in the event of war, Soviet special forces would attempt to disrupt Western lines of communication and logistics, so it was important to arm support troops with a weapon firing a round that could penetrate Soviet body armor at close range.
Read the WHOLE THING (https://warisboring.com/some-pretty-weird-prototypes-preceded-the-p90-submachine-gun-e57181055cea). Fascinating stuff.
Yep the original concept / design / intent of the PDW was a rear area weapon for cooks, truck drivers, mechanics, office type troops who killed the enemy by getting the goods to the troop that did the fighting. It needed to be more than a pistol (because pistols were considered harder to fire accurately and 100+ meters) and less than a rifle, which would ultimately end up in a rack or leaning against a tree while the "real" work was being done. Back then there was a concern about Soviet body armor (turns out the concern was more over rated than the actual threat; but a concern nevertheless).
There were lots of drawing table designs a few made it into production. The HK MP5K got a folding stock added to it and it became HKs PDW until the MP7 was released. The FN P90 is certainly a better iteration of the PDW concept than the MP5 version; but the MP7 is interesting. Knights played with the concept but never released anything. The PDW term has been stolen and morphed into what ever the newest release hits the gun mag cover (except paper magazines don't really have as pull as they used toooooo). Today we have a choice between pistol(and SMG) size cartridges and rifle (read that M16) size cartridges. Its all about what size magazine we want, then fitting the cartridge into that and that into the gun...
3 kg is a generous weight allowance for such a weapon. An empty M4 makes that at 2.88 kg.
Is this not what the M1 Carbine was supposed to do?
Prior to World War II, U.S. Army Ordnance received reports that the full-size M1 rifle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_Garand) was too heavy and cumbersome for most support troops (staff, mortarmen, radiomen, etc.) to carry. During prewar and early war field exercises, it was found that the M1 Garand impeded these soldier's mobility, as a slung rifle would frequently catch on brush, bang the helmet, or tilt over the eyes. Many soldiers found the rifle slid off the shoulder unless slung diagonally across the back, where it prevented the wearing of standard field packs and haversacks.
Additionally, Germany's use of glider-borne and paratroop forces to launch surprise attacks behind the front lines, generated a request for a new compact infantry weapon to equip support troops.[6] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_carbine#cite_note-George.2C_John_1981_p._394-6)[7] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_carbine#cite_note-7) This request called for a compact, lightweight defensive weapon with greater range, accuracy and firepower than handguns
The practical ergonomics of the M1 carbine are near perfect as a light handy shoulder arm. AP loads were not common if they ever existed for it. It would have not been too hard modernize the round to were it could penetrate typical military body armor.
Why reinvent the wheel.
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The original design for the M16 was designed and marketed to the military as an emergency PDW for air crews.
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actually it was designed and marketed as a replacement for the M1 carbine for Airforce security, and then in usual political wisdom, the bright boys in DC tried to shoe horn it into being a general purpose combat rifle, while Springfield and the procurement guys kept trying to sabotage it...
they DID have an under seat survival kit that got prototyped called the Colt Model 608 which consisted of a 10" barreled upper and a minimized fixed stock lower that were approximately the same length so they fit together somewhat when packed. Fixed stock, iron sights, and a stack of 20 round magazines. Too bad they didn't consider suppressors.


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Journalist and stats guru Gavin Buckland has admitted he is a fan of Ralph Hasenuhttl amid Everton's search for a new manager.
The Lowdown: Everton can take their time
The Toffees were dumped out of the FA Cup a couple of weeks ago, which means they have a free weekend and no game until next week, so the Everton hierarchy don't need to make a quick appointment.
Everton decided to pull the trigger and sack Frank Lampard following a horrific run of form which has seen the Toffees occupy a spot inside the relegation zone, and managers such as Marcelo Bielsa and Sean Dyche are being linked with the vacant role.
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However, another former Premier League manager without a club could be a decent appointment in the eyes of Buckland in the form of Hasenhuttl, who lost his job at Southampton prior to the World Cup.
The Latest: Hasenhuttl would be a left-field choice
Buckland was asked on the All Together Now podcast who he'd like to see appointed as Everton's next manager, and while a fan of ex-Burnley man Dyche, he also revealed his admiration for Hasenhuttl because of what he did on the south coast.
He said: "I'd got for Dyche, [but] I tell you who hasn't been mentioned and I've always liked is Hasenhuttl. He's out of a job, I've always liked him, possibly he'd be somebody."
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According to TalkSPORT man Alex Crook, Hasenhuttl was judged rather harshly on the south coast when he was sacked last year by both the club and the Southampton fanbase, and with them failing to have improved under Nathan Jones, that could suggest he was doing a better job than people gave him credit for, so perhaps Buckland's shout is worth considering.
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Q: PCI-STUB vs VFIO-PCI I would like to ask you, what is advantage of using VFIO-PCI over PCI-STUB?
I found this article "PCI passthrough via OVMF" , but they do not say all advantages, they just say that VFIO has some benefits.
Thank you

A: PCI-STUB is a dummy driver.  It was originally developed because
the original KVM device assignment didn't actually bind to the assigned
device as a host driver, it simply grabbed the device and started using
it. As KVM isn't a proper device driver, another host driver could attempt to bind to the device while KVM had it assigned to a user. The pci-stub driver was introduced to occupy the driver slot for the device while KVM made use of it.
As opposed to pci-stub, vfio is a complete interface for userspace
drivers. It provides secure, isolated and IOMMU protected access to the
device.
Advantages of vfio:

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*pci-stub is often built into the kernel, this allows it to bind to devices earlier than drivers that are loadable modules.  With this setup we can instruct pci-stub to bind to devices before the host driver can get to them so we can keep the device in a pristine state for assignment to a
guest.

*The other lesser use case with vfio is with IOMMU grouping.  If you
have a group with multiple devices all the devices in the group must be
bound to compatible drivers or else vfio will consider the group
non-viable.  This is intended to prevent host drivers within the same
group as a user controlled device as they would not be isolated from
each other.  With pci-stub, we know this driver does not initiate any
DMA on behalf of the host, so we consider it compatible.
Thus if you have endpoints in your IOMMU group that you need to do something with to make the group viable, but you want to make sure the user doesn't have access to it, you can bind the device to pci-stub.  This adds a little bit of extra protection vs binding the device to vfio-pci as a compromised user could not simply open other devices within the group that are bound to vfio-pci through the vfio interface.

A: As answered by Ehtesham, pci-stub is a dummy driver to prevent device drivers such as nouvaeu, nvidia, radeon, amdgpu from loading so that your device's BIOS won't be initialized by driver and can be passed through to KVM.
I want to add that, there is a configuration option where you just put a conf file, in which you can list other modules to load after vfio-pci ensuring that vfio-pci loads before device drivers.
For example, in Ubuntu 18.04 you create vfio-pci.conf in /etc/modprobe.d/ with this content:
#options vfio-pci ids=vendid:devid,vendid:devid2,...
softdep radeon pre: vfio-pci
softdep amdgpu pre: vfio-pci
softdep snd_hda_intel pre: vfio-pci
#softdep nouveau pre: vfio-pci
#softdep drm pre: vfio-pci
#softdep nvidia pre: vfio-pci
#softdep xhci_hdc pre: vfio-pci

The first line is not necessary if you added vfio-pci id list to grub.

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Jakob Lorber (22 July 1800 – 23 August 1864) was a Christian mystic and visionary  from the Duchy of Styria, who promoted liberal Universalism. He referred to himself as "God's scribe". He wrote that on 15 March 1840 he began hearing an "inner voice" from the region of his heart and thereafter transcribed what it said. By the time of his death 24 years later he had written manuscripts equivalent to more than 10,000 pages in print.

His writings were published posthumously as amounting to a "New Revelation", and the contemporary "Lorber movement" forms one of the major neo-revelationist sects, mostly active in German-speaking Europe, although parts of Lorber's writings have also been translated into more than 20 languages (according to the website of the Lorber Publisher). Its adherents have not formed a sect or cult, but rather continue in their denominations.

Biography
Jakob Lorber was born in Kanischa, a small village in the Jahring parish, Duchy of Styria (now Kaniža pri Jarenini in Lower Styria, Slovenia) to a peasant family, Michael Lorber and his wife Maria, née Tautscher.
He was trained as a village teacher.

A brief biography by his friend Karl Gottfried Ritter von Leitner indicates that Lorber was an uncomplicated person.

He was observed while writing by well-educated men in the city of Graz, such as Dr. Carl-Friedrich Zimpel, the mayor of Graz, Anton Hüttenbrenner, his brother the composer Anselm Hüttenbrenner, the poet and Secretary to the Estates Karl Gottfried von Leitner, Dr. Anton Kammerhuber, Leopold Cantily, pharmacist of Graz, and others. Too, these men verified his simple life. Lorber was open and friendly regarding his transcriptions yet found himself involved in small intrigues designed to prove that he was a fake. For instance, the wife of one of his friends was certain that Lorber had studied the material he was pretending to hear from the inner voice, but she never found the scientific books she had supposed he was hiding, eventually finding his only research material to be a single copy of the Bible.

He had musical talent and learned the violin, taking lessons from the virtuoso violinist Paganini, and once giving a violin concert at the La Scala Opera House in Milan. In 1840 –the same year he claimed to begin hearing the inner voice– Lorber was offered the position of assistant musical director at the theater in Trieste. He claimed that the inner voice, however, directed him to decline and take up a life of solitude instead. Lorber's writings reveal that the inner voice spoke freely in first person as the voice of Jesus Christ.

Prose style
Lorber's prose has been described as compelling, moving some readers  to compare it with writings by other mystics such as Emanuel Swedenborg, Jakob Boehme and Rudolf Steiner. Lorber himself makes reference to Swedenborg, in his book From Hell to Heaven (book 2 chapter 104 verse 4) and in The Spiritual Sun (vol. 1, chap. 16).

The Great Gospel of John

In the Great Gospel of John, the narrator, Jesus, explains that he is the creator of the material universe, which was designed both as a confinement of Satan, and so he could take upon himself the condition of a man. He says he did this to inspire his children who could otherwise not perceive him in his primordial form as a spirit. He gives descriptions of the eons of time involved in creating the Earth. He does so in a manner similar to the modern theory of evolution all the way up to the point several thousand years ago when Jesus placed Adam upon the Earth, which at the time contained man-like creatures who did not have free will, being simply the most clever of the animals.

In a comprehensive manner the Great Gospel of John continually emphasizes the importance of free will. In this book, heaven and hell are presented as conditions already within us, expressed according to whether we live in harmony or contrary to God's divine order. The Great Gospel of John also states that the gospels of John and Matthew were written at the time of the events they chronicle; for instance, Lorber writes that Jesus specifically told Matthew to take notes during the Sermon on the Mount. Such an account seems at first contrary to the current consensus of biblical scholarship which typically places the authorship of Matthew some years after the resurrection of Jesus Christ and that of John even later. However, in the Great Gospel of John the narrator explains how this happened. He claims that there were many writers who described him, including several authors named Matthew, who all wrote similarly over a period of many years.

Paul's epistle to the Laodiceans

Lorber claimed to have heard by the inner voice, in 1844, the "lost" letter Paul wrote to the assembly of the Laodiceans, as referred to in Colossians 4:16.

Several texts purporting to be the "lost" letter survive, notably one brief text preserved in medieval Vulgate manuscripts, attested from the 6th century. Another candidate is attributed to Marcion, listed in the Muratorian fragment. Marcion's text is lost, and the Vulgate text is widely recognized as pseudepigraphical, and was decreed uncanonical by the Council of Florence of 1439–43. There is no resemblance between the letters produced by Lorber via the inner voice and the original manuscripts that survived. Publisher of this Lorber manuscript claims that the letter's being lost reflects the falling away of the Church from true Christianity.

Reception

Publication
Lorber posthumously attracted a following, and his writings were published and frequently reprinted, mostly with Lorber & Turm, a dedicated publisher based in Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany.
The original manuscripts and copies of some of the manuscripts by close friends of Lorber are still preserved in the archives of the Lorber & Turm publisher.

The German philosopher E.F. Schumacher refers to the New Revelation (NR) in his book "A Guide for the Perplexed" as follows: "They (the books of the NR) contain many strange things which are unacceptable to modern mentality, but at the same time contain such plethora of high wisdom and insight that it would be difficult to find anything more impressive in the whole of world literature. Lorber's books, at the same time, are full of statements on scientific matters which flatly contradicted the sciences of his time and anticipated a great deal of modern physics and astronomy... There is no rational explanation for the range, profundity and precision of their contents."

Lorber's work is divided into several books which, in aggregate, are called the New Revelation.

His Great Gospel of John was published in ten volumes and frequently reprinted, the 8th edition dating to 1996.
The Gospel of Jacob appeared in a 12th edition in 2006.

Lorber's works have partially been translated into English, appearing with Merkur Publishing.

Adherents

Lorber and his friends were members of the Roman Catholic Church, and Lorber's revelations asked them not to leave the church, but to convince it of the genuinely divine nature of the "New Revelation" by leading exemplary lives. However, the First Vatican Council of 1869/1870 placed Lorber's writings on the Index of Forbidden Books. Occultist Leopold Engel was one of Lorber's followers, and also wrote an 11th volume, claiming to be a follow up to Lorber's The Great Gospel of John close to 30 years after Lorber's death.

There is a movement of adherents of Lorber's writings (Lorber-Bewegung, Lorberianer, Lorber-Gesellschaften), mostly active in German-speaking Europe. There is no organizational structure beyond small regional circles, While there is no accurate estimate of the total number of adherents, it likely exceeds 100,000 worldwide.

Status in the Church of Christ with the Elijah Message
In one of the sacred books of all the three factions of the Church of Christ with the Elijah Message, Word of the Lord Brought to Mankind by an Angel, Lorber is named as one of the servants of God from the German speaking area.

Criticism
One main point of criticism of Lorber's works was the use of the first person as if the writings were dictated by Jesus Christ himself.<ref name="Weltanschauungsfragen, p. 21">Evangelische Zentralstelle für Weltanschauungsfragen, Ich habe euch noch viel zu sagen …", p. 21</ref>
Some statements can be considered anti-semitic,Andreas Fincke, Jesus Christus im Werk Jakob Lorbers: Untersuchungen zum Jesusbild und zur Christologie einer "Neuoffenbarung", 162ff. and Lorber was in fact noted by the anti-semitic proponents of "Ariosophy" racial mysticism during the 1920, e.g. by Lanz von Liebenfels, who in 1926 published on Jakob Lorber as "the greatest ariosophic medium of the modern era" (das grösste ariosophische Medium der Neuzeit) Then again it is said in the books of Lorber, that salvation comes to all men from the Jews, and that one should in all truth return to Judaism and that the God of the Jews is the only true, eternal God. It is also said to be the will of God or Jesus that all men should be friends, whether they are Jews or gentiles.

Kurt Hutten, former chairman of the Evangelische Zentralstelle für Weltanschauungsfragen (EZW, an apologetic institution of the Evangelical Church in Germany) has identified Swedenborg and Lorber as recipients of equally valid private revelation. Official statements of the EZW are more skeptical, assuming psychological explanations for Lorber's revelations. EZW points to a 1966 Berne dissertation by Antoinette Stettler-Schär which diagnosed Lorber with paranoid schizophrenia. This diagnosis has been dismissed by Bernhard Grom, who diagnoses self-induced hallucination. Andreas Finke, vice-chairman of the EZW, concludes that the content of Lorber's revelations reflect both the period during which they were written down and the knowledge of their author, identifying them as "pious poetry in the best sense of the term, but not divine dictation."

BibliographyDas grosse Evangelium Johannis (The Great Gospel of John), first edition 1871, 10 volumes, Lorber-Verlag, 1996 reprint:  ff.
"condensed version" in English, Zluhan Verlag (1985), .Die Haushaltung Gottes  (The Household of God), 3 vols., Lorber-Verlag, 5th ed. (1981), .
 English translation:   Zluhan Verlag (1995) .Die geistige Sonne, 2 vols., Lorber-Verlag, 9th ed. (1996), .Die natürliche Sonne Bietigheim Württemberg, Neu-Salems-Verlag (1928)Die Heilkraft des Sonnenlichtes, Lorber-Verlag, 2006 reprint: .Jenseits der Schwelle: Sterbeszenen, Lorber-Verlag, 2004 reprint (9th ed.): .Die Jugend Jesu. Das Jakobus-Evangelium, 12th ed. (1996), .Die Fliege: Einblicke in die Wunder der Schöpfung , Zluhan Verlag, 7th ed. (2000), .Bischof Martin: Die Entwicklung einer Seele im Jenseits , 3rd ed. (2003), .Die drei Tage im Tempel , Zluhan Verlag, 10th ed. (1995), .Naturgeheimnisse: Das Naturgeschehen und sein geistiger Hintergrund , Lorber-Verlag, 3rd ed. (1994), .Die Wiederkunft Christi: Ein Entwicklungsbild der Menschheit , Zluhan Verlag, 5th ed. (2000), .Paulus' Brief an die Gemeinde in Laodizea, Zluhan Verlag; 6th ed. (1993), .Briefwechsel Jesu mit Abgarus Ukkama von Edessa, .Der Saturn: Darstellung dieses Planeten samt Ring und Monden und seiner Lebewesen, Lorber-Verlag, 4th ed. (2009), .Erde und Mond, Zluhan Verlag, 2000 reprint of 4th ed. (1953), .Der Großglockner: Ein Evangelium der Berge, Zluhan Verlag, 7th ed. (2009), .
 Ritter von Leitner:Jakob Lorber, der Steiermärkische Theosoph Junge Michael:Dokumentation um Jakob Lorber. Books on Demand GmbH, 2004,
  Hutten Kurt:Seher – Grübler – Enthusiasten. Das Buch der traditionellen Sekten und religiösen Sonderbewegungen. Quell Verlag, Stuttgart 1997,
 Pöhlmann Matthias (ed.): "Ich habe euch noch viel zu sagen ...": Gottesboten – Propheten – Neuoffenbarer. EZW-Texte 169. Evangelische Zentralstelle für Weltanschauungsfragen, Berlin 2003, ISSN 0085-0357
 Obst Helmut:Apostel und Propheten der Neuzeit. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, , , 233–264
 Gassmann Lothar:Kleines Sekten-HandbuchMago-Bucher, 2005,  , 92–95
 Stettler Antoinette-Schär:Jakob Lorber: Sektenstifters eines Psychopathologie zur''. Dissertation an der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität Bern, 1966
 Johanna Böhm: Eine kritische Durchsicht.

References

External links

 Lorber's works in English at the Internet Archive
God's Scribe, includes web versions and e-books of Lorber's work.
The New Revelation of Jesus Christ through Jakob Lorber and Gottfried Mayerhofer
The New Revelation on the Internet – in English, German and other languages
Jakob Lorber Online Search Database
Lorber-weblinks
Jakob Lorber: Letter of St. Paul to the Assembly of the Laodiceans
The Great Gospel of John Vol. 1–10 in English

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1864 deaths
19th-century Christian mystics
Roman Catholic mystics
Enlightenment philosophers
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Let's put India—the time tested friend, and Pakistan—the neighbor to the boxing rank on Afghanistan situation to get a clear picture that which states is honest in the game. The Afghan people would observe the two states at the rank with an open-eye without blinking, and the interesting point is that both have a lot in diversion. At real sense, Pakistan is a big puncher with evil designs at the backbone, while India is engaged to fortify it in a fan-friendly style. But always Afghanistan with the support of India has knocked victories against Pakistan in several faces. Pakistanis in the rank have violated Afghan territory more than 59 times, including three violations of our air space, over 1375 cross-frontier artillery shelling and caused dozens of casualties, displacement of 450 families in the middle of cold winter in our eastern provinces, burning of our forests, illegal construction of infrastructure near the frontier region, and hostile maneuvering of tanks and heavy weaponry. In contrary to that, Indian's in the rank have always focused on projecting its soft power by building dams, roads, schools, hospitals and the most important one is parliament and court buildings. However, there are so many other infrastructure projects that have been protected by Indians in the rank. Pakistanis is paying heed to give legitimacy for groups such as Taliban and other militant outfits as a tactic to give plausible deniability to their support and harboring militancy. But the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi Ji has won the heart of Afghans by saying some words in Pashto and Dari in public speeches. Indians are making efforts to find a transit route with Afghanistan through Chabahar port, but Pakistan has been shutdown transit routes which hundreds of stranded goods trucks are loaded with fresh fruits, vegetable, poultry and other edible items have wasted, sustaining heavy financial losses on both sides. Moreover, India has labeled itself as an economic partner of Afghanistan rather than a donor. To boost people-to-people ties, India has further liberalized its visa policy to make it easier for Afghans visiting the country. At the same time Pakistan has closed crossings, putting people into deep uncertainty and miseries. Afghans receive warm welcome while visiting India, but in Pakistan they send behind bars without any crimes. The neighboring Pakistan is an evil, but the neighbor of neighbor of Afghanistan is cherub. It is not exaggeration at any level as India had been remain as a strong supportive of the war-hit country. It would be very much irrational to compare New Delhi with Islamabad. Now the time is ripe for all the actors to join India in the boxing rank against Pakistan, and knock down this cancer from the surface of this plant.
Previous Pakistan violated territorial integrity 59 times: Saikal
Next Pakistan violating sovereignty of Afghanistan: Achakzai


SO IS chemotherapy a bit like having a hangover, as I confidently predicted in my blog back in February?
Er…no. And that's the reason why I haven't updated with any rants for quite a while. I haven't felt well enough and I've been trying to lead a normal life so I haven't wanted to spend much time thinking or writing about being ill.
Apparently, when you have cancer, you're supposed to discover all sorts of things about yourself, like you want to give up your job and work in an orphanage in Romania or something. I can't say I've been afflicted by that sort of selfless nonsense, but I did decide to get red hair, so now I look like I did when I was about 12, but with false eyelashes.
I don't have the greatest outlook, to be frank, a 50% chance of surviving five years, according to the Nottingham Prognostic Indicator, which is a pretty annoying statistic, but one which I'm going to defy, in the same way I did when my oncologist (Dr Andy) said he didn't think I would be able to work through the treatment.
There are new drugs coming along all the time and I'm confident that my charmed life will continue for many years to come.
I'm now two thirds of the way through a dose intense treatment which means I've already had one complete course of epirubicin and cyclophosphamide in half the usual time, and I've had one double dose of docetaxel (Taxotere). Just two more to go, thank God, and then I get a month off before three weeks of radiotherapy. After that I get a wonder drug called Arimidex indefinitely and a reconstruction op.
There are very good reasons why people having chemotherapy gloss over the details, because nobody would ever have it if they realised how nasty the treatment was and how it wrecks your body and mind. Over the four treatments to date, there has only been one where I've not needed hospital intervention for side effects, including agonising pain in my bones which made me wish I were dead.
Last week I had four hospital visits in five days, including one on a bank holiday. On a brighter note, I've surprised myself and Nurse Julia by being able to do seven jabs of Filgrastim which will stop me getting a life threatening infection.
But I wouldn't turn the clock back, because whatever the eventual outcome, I've discovered just how kind people can be, particularly when they've had massive upset in their own lives, are busy or stressed with work.
Day in, day out, for nearly five months, I've been getting emails, texts, Facebook messages, phone calls and tweets from friends in the Yorkshire Evening Post and Yorkshire Post newsroom, and those I worked on newspapers with years ago, as well as lovely people I've known since our children were at school together and former classmates from Prince Henry's Grammar School in Evesham.
I honestly didn't realise I had so many friends and this is my chance to say thanks to the very special people whose kindness has touched my heart.


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Jeb Hensarling & Dana Rohrabacher
Compare the voting records of Jeb Hensarling and Dana Rohrabacher in 2017-18.
Represented Texas's 5th Congressional District. This was his 8th term in the House.
Represented California's 48th Congressional District. This was his 15th term in the House.
Jeb Hensarling and Dana Rohrabacher are from the same party and agreed on 93 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
But they didn't always agree. Out of 1079 votes in the 115th Congress, they disagreed on 80 votes, including 12 major votes.
Sept. 28, 2018 — Protecting Family and Small Business Tax Cuts Act of 2018
Dec. 20, 2017 — Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
Nov. 16, 2017 — Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
July 18, 2018 — Palmer of Alabama Amendment No. 83
June 15, 2018 — Thornberry of Texas Part A Amendment No. 4
June 7, 2018 — Lowenthal of California Part B Amendment No. 31
June 7, 2018 — Connolly of Virginia Part B Amendment No. 27
May 23, 2018 — Garamendi of California Amendment No. 5
May 23, 2018 — Aguilar of California Amendment No. 4
Sept. 7, 2017 — Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 3354) making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, and for other purposes
May 19, 2017 — Probation Officer Protection Act of 2017
March 2, 2017 — Regulatory Integrity Act


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from __future__ import print_function
import requests
import json
import time
import codecs
import sys

# stole this from requests libary. To determine whether we are dealing
# with Python 2 or 3
_ver = sys.version_info

#: Python 2.x?
is_py2=(_ver[0]==2)
#: Python 3.x?
is_py3=(_ver[0]==3)

class EvohomeClient:
    def __init__(self, username, password):
        self.username = username
        self.password = password
        self.user_data = None
        self.full_data = None
        self.gateway_data = None
        self.reader = codecs.getdecoder("utf-8")

    def _convert(self, object):
        return json.loads(self.reader(object)[0])

    def _populate_full_data(self, force_refresh=False):
        if self.full_data is None or force_refresh:
            self._populate_user_info()
            userId = self.user_data['userInfo']['userID']
            sessionId = self.user_data['sessionId']

            url = 'https://rs.alarmnet.com/TotalConnectComfort/WebAPI/api/locations?userId=%s&allData=True' % userId

            self.headers['sessionId'] = sessionId

            response = requests.get(url,data=json.dumps(self.postdata),headers=self.headers)

            self.full_data = self._convert(response.content)[0]

            self.location_id = self.full_data['locationID']

            self.devices = {}
            self.named_devices = {}

            for device in self.full_data['devices']:
                self.devices[device['deviceID']] = device
                self.named_devices[device['name']] = device

    def _populate_gateway_info(self):
        self._populate_full_data()
        if self.gateway_data is None:
            url = 'https://rs.alarmnet.com/TotalConnectComfort/WebAPI/api/gateways?locationId=%s&allData=False' % self.location_id
            response = requests.get(url, headers = self.headers)

            self.gateway_data = self._convert(response.content)[0]

    def _populate_user_info(self):
        if self.user_data is None:
            url = 'https://rs.alarmnet.com/TotalConnectComfort/WebAPI/api/Session'
            self.postdata = {'Username':self.username,'Password':self.password,'ApplicationId':'91db1612-73fd-4500-91b2-e63b069b185c'}
            self.headers = {'content-type':'application/json'}

            response = requests.post(url,data=json.dumps(self.postdata),headers=self.headers)
            self.user_data = self._convert(response.content)

        return self.user_data

    def temperatures(self, force_refresh=False):
        self._populate_full_data(force_refresh)
        for device in self.full_data['devices']:
            yield {'thermostat': device['thermostatModelType'],
                    'id': device['deviceID'],
                    'name': device['name'],
                    'temp': device['thermostat']['indoorTemperature'],
                   'setpoint':device['thermostat']['changeableValues']['heatSetpoint']['value']}

    def get_modes(self, zone):
        self._populate_full_data()
        device = self._get_device(zone)
        return device['thermostat']['allowedModes']

    def _get_device(self, zone):
        if isinstance(zone, str) or (is_py2 and isinstance(zone, basestring)):
            device = self.named_devices[zone]
        else:
            device = self.devices[zone]
        return device

    def _get_task_status(self, task_id):
        self._populate_full_data()
        url = 'https://rs.alarmnet.com/TotalConnectComfort/WebAPI/api/commTasks?commTaskId=%s' % task_id
        response = requests.get(url, headers=self.headers)

        return self._convert(response.content)['state']

    def _get_task_id(self, response):
        ret = self._convert(response.content)

        if isinstance(ret, list):
            task_id = ret[0]['id']
        else:
            task_id = ret['id']
        return task_id

    def _set_status(self, status, until=None):
        self._populate_full_data()
        url = 'https://rs.alarmnet.com/TotalConnectComfort/WebAPI/api/evoTouchSystems?locationId=%s' % self.location_id
        if until is None:
            data = {"QuickAction":status,"QuickActionNextTime":None}
        else:
            data = {"QuickAction":status,"QuickActionNextTime":"%sT00:00:00Z" % until.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')}
        response = requests.put(url, data=json.dumps(data), headers=self.headers)

        task_id = self._get_task_id(response)

        while self._get_task_status(task_id) != 'Succeeded':
            time.sleep(1)

    def set_status_normal(self):
        self._set_status('Auto')

    def set_status_custom(self, until=None):
        self._set_status('Custom', until)

    def set_status_eco(self, until=None):
        self._set_status('AutoWithEco', until)

    def set_status_away(self, until=None):
        self._set_status('Away', until)

    def set_status_dayoff(self, until=None):
        self._set_status('DayOff', until)

    def set_status_heatingoff(self, until=None):
        self._set_status('HeatingOff', until)

    def _get_device_id(self, zone):
        device = self._get_device(zone)
        return device['deviceID']

    def _set_heat_setpoint(self, zone, data):
        self._populate_full_data()

        device_id = self._get_device_id(zone)

        url = 'https://rs.alarmnet.com/TotalConnectComfort/WebAPI/api/devices/%s/thermostat/changeableValues/heatSetpoint' % device_id
        response = requests.put(url, json.dumps(data), headers=self.headers)

        task_id = self._get_task_id(response)

        while self._get_task_status(task_id) != 'Succeeded':
            time.sleep(1)

    def set_temperature(self, zone, temperature, until=None):
        if until is None:
            data = {"Value":temperature,"Status":"Hold","NextTime":None}
        else:
            data = {"Value":temperature,"Status":"Temporary","NextTime":until.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')}
        self._set_heat_setpoint(zone, data)

    def cancel_temp_override(self, zone):
        data = {"Value":None,"Status":"Scheduled","NextTime":None}
        self._set_heat_setpoint(zone, data)

    def _get_dhw_zone(self):
        for device in self.full_data['devices']:
            if device['thermostatModelType'] == 'DOMESTIC_HOT_WATER':
                return device['deviceID']
        return None

    def _set_dhw(self, data):
        self._populate_full_data()
        url = 'https://rs.alarmnet.com/TotalConnectComfort/WebAPI/api/devices/%s/thermostat/changeableValues' % self._get_dhw_zone()

        response = requests.put(url, data=json.dumps(data), headers=self.headers)

        task_id = self._get_task_id(response)

        while self._get_task_status(task_id) != 'Succeeded':
            time.sleep(1)

    def set_dhw_on(self, until=None):
        if until is None:
            data = {"Mode":"DHWOn","SpecialModes":None,"HeatSetpoint":None,"CoolSetpoint":None,"Status":"Hold","NextTime":None}
        else:
            data = {"Mode":"DHWOn","SpecialModes":None,"HeatSetpoint":None,"CoolSetpoint":None,"Status":"Hold","NextTime":until.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')}
        self._set_dhw(data)

    def set_dhw_off(self, until=None):
        if until is None:
            data = {"Mode":"DHWOff","SpecialModes":None,"HeatSetpoint":None,"CoolSetpoint":None,"Status":"Hold","NextTime":None}
        else:
            data = {"Mode":"DHWOff","SpecialModes":None,"HeatSetpoint":None,"CoolSetpoint":None,"Status":"Hold","NextTime":until.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')}
        self._set_dhw(data)

    def set_dhw_auto(self):
        data = {"Mode":None,"SpecialModes":None,"HeatSetpoint":None,"CoolSetpoint":None,"Status":"Scheduled","NextTime":None}
        self._set_dhw(data)

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But when I went to my appointment I had to park it myself because the CARMEN were all BIZET.
Can you sing me another opera title pun? Put it in the comments.
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Admit it, you, like me have wasted entirely too much time thinking of new acronyms and poster ideas that will launch us into holiness. And all that we have achieved is lame preaching on being "better" and trying harder and the realization that we fail time and time again. We don't get grace.
Matt Chandler is staring this problem in the face and calling it out.
Chandler goes on to describe three grace weapons: Scripture, the Blood of Christ and the Promises of the Covenant. Read his whole post here.
Keep up the "Grace Driven Effort" just don't get the effort confused with the source of grace. Talk less about what you do, talk more about what Jesus has done, live in response accordingly.
It seems like this blog is becoming a sounding board for Matt Chandler sermons and while that is not the intention he just keeps preaching about some hard issues with clarity and grace that I have to share them.
Justin Taylor has highlighted a recent seminar that Chandler held at his Texas church on homosexuality. There is arguably no more divisive and difficult issue in our culture and in Christianity. But it is not a new one. While it may seem that its prevalence is growing it has been in play since the fall and how we react to it has to match how God's grace does.
I personally know how difficult of an issue this is. Everyone is affected by it either directly or through friendships or family relationships. It is not easy but we are called to relentlessly pursue God and his glory alone and anything that stands in the way of that must be recognized, repented of and turned from.
In Justin Taylor's post there is close to two hours of video that every Christian should attentively watch and prayerfully respond to. Chandler looks biblically and culturally at the issue and then fields questions via text on all facets of the issue. It is well worth the time. Watch it here.
I am often encouraged by the ministry of Matt Chandler – defined by his relentless pursuit of the Gospel and a blunt, honest nature. His recent comments to the Southern Baptist Convention do not diverge from that norm and I think the have implications for the wider church as a whole.
Though active in bringing people to Christ, churches are not deepening and strengthening believers.
Consequently, many people end up leaving the church or becoming "dechurched," he lamented.
Also, by leaving out the sanctification part, many pastors start to preach "Christian therapeutic moralistic deism," a term he borrowed from author Christian Smith. In other words, they preach, "This is how a Christian behaves, this is how you don't behave," though they might not use that exact language.
The Christian Post has a full report that is worth a read but these comments get to an endemic in American churches. We are actively evangelizing but we do not disciple or push our members towards sanctification. We offer formulas for life success absent the Gospel because we are creative and rely on business models to grow a congregation. We use the same techniques as cigarette companies use to addict smokers.
The Gospel does not need slick marketing. The story of redemption through our God's sacrifice stands above your color schemes and brands. Sanctification through pursuit of Christ is beyond what you have designed and as we hide behind facades of godliness we turn from God and despise his purpose and holiness.
I pray that we can collectively determine to pursue this Gospel unshackled from our own creativity and make the main thing, the main thing.


Food and supplies are unloaded from a military transport plane in Tacloban, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, following a typhoon in the Philippines. Passengers were later loaded and allowed to ride to Cebu.
Editor's note: Deseret News journalist Jesse Hyde and photojournalist Ravell Call have spent the past week reporting from the Philippines in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. This is their final report from the scene.
TACLOBAN, Philippines — In the darkness, Jairus Perez drives, the rain pattering his windshield, the headlights scanning the road before him. Downed power lines and fallen trees block the way. Every few feet, he gets out and hacks through the branches with a machete to clear the highway. And then he drives on.
He hates getting out, not just because of the rain, or the cool chill that passes on his skin, but also for the smell. It is unnatural, and monstrous, the stink of death around him. He can't decide what is worse, the stench, or the bloated bodies daylight will reveal.
The phones aren't working, and that's why he's here. For two days, he has heard nothing from the people of Ormoc and Tacloban and Palo. He imagines the thousands of people on Leyte and Samar, the two islands hit hardest by Typhoon Haiyan, seeking refuge in the more than 20 chapels here, huddled together without electricity, shivering in the cold, praying that help will arrive.
On this night, Jairus Perez is all the hope they've got.
The day before the storm, Ruby Rosales wakes an hour or two before dawn, as she does every morning, to cook for the day. An English teacher at the high school, she has to leave the house before seven, drop off her nine-year-old son at school, and then get to work before her first class.
She lives with her extended family in a compound of sorts, her father in one small house next to hers, her sister and her brother-in-law in another, the property fenced in by a concrete wall. She likes this arrangement, likes how close it makes her feel to her family. She can't imagine living apart from her father.
He is 75-years-old, his hands gnarled with age, his eyes watery, his hair white and thinning. And yet, there is still a sense of wonder in his eyes, a joy in his face every time he smiles, which is often.
As a child, she watched him work, painting beautiful landscapes of the fishing villages around their city: the rice paddies and mangrove swamps, the hay fields and palm trees. He still paints, but he has a heart condition and walks gingerly, as if his joints are creaking hinges, and he can no longer support himself financially. She doesn't mind taking care of him. In fact, she considers it an honor.
As she readies breakfast, her husband sleeps, and she wonders if he'll be late to class again. He grew up not far from here, shooting birds with slingshots, fishing down by the river, playing a game similar to marbles with bottle caps for money.
He had once grown his hair long, joined a revolutionary movement in college, dropped out and stopped going to church. He had been both wild and idealistic, and flashes of that young man still appear from time to time. But he changed after they met, became more solid and dependable.
Now he wears his hair short, teaches algebra at the junior high, and goes to church every Sunday in a white shirt and tie. At night he studies for law school. He wants to send his son to private school, and a teacher's salary won't cut it.
This is Ruby Rosales life before the storm, the middle link between three generations. Family, she says, matters most to her.
When she leaves her home that day, nothing in the sky looks foreboding. She has little reason to think life as she knows it is about to change.
As Perez and his two companions drive through the night, they stop at each chapel along the highway, writing down the names of the missing, asking what the people in each town need. Perez is the disaster relief coordinator for the LDS Church in the Philippines, a country that has more than its fair share of storms and earthquakes.
Perez himself has been through more typhoons than he can count, but this one, he can already tell, is the worst.
At each place he stops, he hears incredible stories of survival, even miracles. More than 400 people took shelter in one chapel, at least 100 of them not members of the church. All survived.
In Palo, a small fishing village with houses of concrete, but others of only plywood and tin roofs, a father of nine sent eight of his children to the chapel, where they huddled together in a bathroom as the 200-mile-per-hour winds ripped the roof off the joists and sent it flying in chunks into the blackened sky.
The father stayed home, like other men in his village, holding his 10-month-old baby under his T-shirt to keep her warm. When the storm surge engulfed his house, he climbed to the roof, and soon enough the water was up to his neck. He held his baby girl above the water for three hours, until it subsided and he could rush to the chapel, where he wept in relief when he found his other eight children were all safe.
Their 72 hour kits washed away, they lived off coconut water and bananas for three days, until aid arrived.
At another chapel not far from here, a wall collapsed, revealing a water pump no one knew was there. Had the wall not collapsed, the members tell him, they wouldn't have had a place to find fresh water.
In town after town, Perez hears similar stories. Before the storm, a bishop in a town called Ormoc drove by motorcycle into the mountains and down by the rivers to plead with his members to take refuge in the chapel. All of those who listened survived.
But he also hears and sees things he'd just as soon forget.
In Tacloban, carcasses of pigs and dogs and humans lay along the riverbank, decaying in the sun. He can't believe how many bodies he sees in the streets, even three days after the typhoon. The road is so crowded with debris — twisted sheets of corrugated steel, splintered palm trees chopped off at the knees — that the highway is barely passable, and it takes hours to go a few kilometers.
As Perez inches through the city, trying to make his way to the LDS mission home, a sort of frenzied madness sets upon the people. He watches from his car as mobs loot a meat-processing warehouse. Others climb through the wreckage, over street signs and the rubble of fallen cinderblock, carrying flatscreen televisions and expensive video cameras.
The looters are in such a hurry they step on the bodies rotting in the streets, and move on without reaction. The Philippine soldiers there to establish order shoot into the crowd, and then up in the air as a warning.
Perez knows it is wrong, but in these moments he can't help but feel a deep anger toward the looters. He briefly thinks: If it were up to me, this city would receive help last.
But then he remembers the friends he has in Tacloban, the many who live here now without a home. At one chapel he stopped at, asking what the members need, a woman pushed a package of crackers into his hand, insisting he take them for he and his two traveling companions, even though he lives in a city unaffected by the storm.
Her generosity nearly brings him to tears.
When the storm comes, Ruby is already up, fixing breakfast. Her father has been through many typhoons, but they can all tell that this one is different. As it rages, for hours, they can hear metal twist and the thundering sound of falling trees crushing buildings. Her 9-year-old son, Elijah, can't stop crying. She tries to hush him with Primary songs, but nothing works. All eight of them kneel down and pray.
When the wind and rain stop six hours later, and everyone in her family is safe, Ruby and her son walk outside. Nearly every house in their neighborhood is flattened. She looks out across the city, and in the distance, she sees a rainbow. She takes it as a sign from God that everything will be all right.
She had gone to the grocery store the Monday before the typhoon and bought cans of sardines, candles and other emergency supplies. They have enough food and water to survive for a week or more.
Because their house is made of concrete blocks and built on a solid foundation, Ruby and her family stayed inside, unlike other members of her congregation who evacuated to the chapel. Her husband leaves that afternoon to visit the church to see what he can do to help.
As he walks through the city, he sees friends who lost family. He calls to them, but they keep walking, as if they can't hear. Their faces are blank, devoid of emotion, their clothes torn, their hair wet and matted down by the mud and rain. They remind him of zombies.
At night, as Ruby gathers with the eight members of her family who live in the compound, they hear gunfire. Her husband hears a rumor that the prisoners have escaped from the jail, and he makes plans to leave the city. Ruby can't sleep at night, awakened every time she hears the patter of rain, worried that the storm has returned.
Once Perez has travelled through Leyte and Samar Islands and made contact with all the members there, he takes a ferry back to Cebu and returns as quickly as possible with a generator and boxes of food and medical supplies.
At the same time, he begins coordinating with the LDS Church's disaster relief specialists in Manila and Salt Lake City. They order motorcycles so bishops, who oversee individual congregations, can deliver supplies or medicine to their members living in remote locations. They arrived Friday and will be sent to each ward.
They establish a command center in the city of Ormoc, where they ship sacks of rice, boxes of sardines, pallets of corned beef, blankets, mosquito nets, toothbrushes, soap, aspirin, bandages and other supplies. They talk about the best way to build and replace homes. And every day, Perez and his supervisors in Manila and Salt Lake touch base with bishops in affected areas.
Aid flows in unbidden. A week after the storm, 14 former missionaries who served in the Philippines arrive and set up a medical clinic at the command center in Ormoc, cleaning up cuts and bruises and abrasions for residents who line up all morning. They hand out medicine and apply bandages. The next day, they travel to remote villages to do the same.
A doctor from Manila flies in with boxes of vaccines he purchased himself for tetanus and cholera. At a chapel in Tacloban he gives shots to anyone that shows up.
Perez returns home to Cebu, but he finds it hard to sleep, as his phone is constantly ringing with calls from bishops and stake presidents in Samar and Leyte who report on the arrival of aid and ask what's coming next.
One night at a chapel in Cebu, which is about 350 miles from Samar and Leyte islands, hundreds of members show up to assemble food and hygiene kits for those in the storm zone.
Dozens of evacuees arrive in Manila and Cebu every day, some with nothing but the clothes on their backs. They find their way to the LDS Temple, hoping that when they arrive, there will be a place for them to sleep.
For days after the storm, Ruby's husband and her brother search for a way out of the city. They go to the airport but hundreds wait, and only the richest are able to fly out, paying cash for a seat.
Gas stations are closed, their owners worried about looting, and so no buses are leaving the city. The nearest ferry is several hours away by car.
One day, her brother hears that the Philippine Navy has a ship leaving that morning, and if they can get on they can go to Cebu, where they have relatives. He hurries home to relay the news.
The family of eight scrambles to gather a lifetime of possessions and memories, unsure if they'll ever return, knowing they can only pack what they can carry.
Ruby is amazed at how little material things matter to her now. Hours later, she and her family begin the long walk to the pier. It's been eight days since the storm, and dead bodies still lie in the street. The smell is so bad, Ruby vomits several times on the walk. Her husband and father cover their noses, and try to look away.
The navy ship is a blessing, a deliverance from a nightmare, but it's also another trial. They sit on the ship deck with no covering from the rain or sun for the 24 hours it takes to get to Cebu, alternately drenched with rain, and then soaked with sweat.
In the days after their departure from Tacloban, the U.S. military arrives, and thousands of Filipino police from around the country set up checkpoints throughout the city and impose an 8 p.m. curfew. The looting stops. Each day, more debris is cleared from the roads.
As the city stabilizes, the bodies are cleared from the streets, and international aid groups from around the world set up a tent city near the airport. Aid workers fan out through Tacloban, giving shots and handing out water and food. U.S. military helicopters lift off from the airport all day long, delivering pallets of food to remote communities.
A little over two weeks after the storm, the city's biggest hardware store reopens, and a long line forms. People buy nails and corrugated tin roofing. Near the airport, a group of off duty policemen play pick up basketball on a dirt court outfitted with a wooden backboard.
Not far away, a man bathes by dumping a bucket over his head. A piece of plywood is all the shelter he has left. His wife is one of the 1,611 still listed as missing. The death toll, as of Nov. 22, is over 5,200 and expected to keep rising.
Perez keeps a list of his own, the names of the members of his church still unaccounted for.
It's morning in the Philippines, the ground wet with rain. In the foothills above the city of Cebu, near a field where a cow eats under a mango tree, Ruby's father sits on a bench made of bamboo strips.
Inside the house behind him, his grandson is playing video games on a smartphone. His son-in-law is doing laundry. Ruby comes outside and sits beside her father in the shade, gently pats his bony hand.
For now, this is their home, on a quiet street, with a yard fenced by a cement wall. Shortly after they arrived in Cebu, a man named Joseph Gimena called them. He had been asked by Perez to serve as a "transient bishop," watching over the evacuees who showed up at the temple looking for a place to live. He helps them with jobs, medicine, whatever else they need. He watches over 79 people who came but who aren't members of the church.
Nearly every night, more refugee families arrive in Cebu, and Gimena becomes their bishop too, relaying their needs to Perez. Ruby's family is just one he watches over.
Ruby's house back in Tacloban suffered little damage, and they plan to go home soon. There are rumors that the power grid will be up by December.
The things that mattered to her before the storm still matter — she still wants her son to go to private school and she still plans to get her doctorate — but they pale in comparison to family. Her father is alive, her son suffered no injuries, and her husband still sleeps by her side.
To Ruby, these are the greatest blessings.
She prefers to remember Tacloban as her father, the artist, once painted it — the rice paddies stretching to the horizon, the fishing boats on the sea. Maybe one day, it will look like that again, and she will go back.
But for now, this house is enough. Her family is with her. This place feels like home.